Hammond Times, Volume 5, Number 178, Hammond, Lake County, 17 January 1911 — Page 4

THE TIMES NEWSPAPERS WCMJDINO THE GART EVENING TIMES EDITION. THE LAKB OBCMTY TIMES FOUR O'CLOCK EDITION. THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES EVENINQ EDITION AND THE TIMES SPORTING EXTRA, ALL DAILY NEWSPAPERS PUBLISHED BT THE LAKE COUNTY PRINTING AND PUBLISHING CpMPANY. , The Lake County Tlm8 "Entered as second class matter June II, 1Q. t U pestofflce at Hammond, Indiana, under the Act of Congress. March , 1!T." The Gary Ev.ning Times "Entered as second class matter October i. j0. at the poatofnoe at Hammond, Indiana, under the Act of Congress. March . 187." MAIN OFFICE HAMMOND, IND, TELEPHONE, III EAST CHICAGO AND INDIANA HARBOR TELEPHONE . GARY OFFICE REYNOLDS I! LOG, TELEPHONE 1ST. MARCHKsWKAST CHICAGO, INDIANA HARBOR, WHITING, CROWN POIN1 TOLLESTON AND LOHXLL.

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PURTELLE'S BUBBLE PRICKED. The failure of Eugene Pnrtelle, the Chicago broker who promoted the Northwestern Indiana Traction company, is a vindication of the exposure THE TIMES made of his methods some time ago. It is the best proof that the extensive circulation of THE TIMES over Lake county undoubtedly saved the people of fhis part of the state thousands of dollars. Incidentally it points to a great lesson. It is estimated that many thousands of dollars of Lake county money is annually being poured into questionable investments. The county is losing the money that could be much more profitably and safely invested in development of legitimate enterprises. Like any rapidly growing community, Lake county is short of capital. It needs money for the development of its established industries. Foreign capital is not available and every dollar of local capital should be turned back into the development of the region. Purtelle came to Lake county with a fine scheme for the building of an interurban line from Hammond to Dyer; Crown Point, Cedar Lake and points south. The people whom he approached for stock subscriptions liked his plan. They failed to properly investigate the financial responsibility of the promoter. It remained for THE TIMES to reveal the fact that, judging from past performances, Purtelle is not responsible. THE TIMES printed its expose with the result that the country newspapers from Crown Point to Rensselaer and Remington proceeded to denounce us. A bubble is a beautiful thing and when the rainbow hues of Purtelle's scheme were pricked by THE TIMES and reduced to commonplace soap and water, it was expected that - denunciations would follow. And there are other questionable enterprises in this locality which should be avoided by the cautious investor. There are a few simple rules that should be laid down to the man who has money to invest in enterprises that are being promoted by some one else. 1. Satisfy yourself that a project is feasible and that it will become a paying investment. 2. Confirm your opinion by that of some conservative and successful business man, preferably your banker. 3. Determine in your own mind whether or not the promoters of the project have the financial standing and the ability to carry their plans to a successful consummation. 4. Confirm your opinion by that of some conservative and successful business man, preferably another banker. 6. Don't take the word of the promoter as to his financial standing unless you know the facts personally. The investors in Northwestern Indiana Traction stock would have been money ahea3 today if they had had a reputable credit agency investigate Purtelle. 6. And when a paper, of the responsibility of THE TIMES, with a public duty to perform and a desire to promote the interests of the people, tells you that a promoter is handing you bunk, bank on it

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MILLER GETTING AMBITIOUS. It is a sign of the times that our little neighbor, Miller, in the northeastern end of the county, is waking up and taking on quite a defined boom. Shaking off the lethargy of the sand dunes and the swamps, the citizens have sniffed some of the Gary blast furnace smoke that has wafted eastward and are now declaiming the "Greater Miller" spirit. As a result we see cement sidewalks going in where there were trails in the woods. Swamps are getting drained and it doesn't take long to make a drained swamp a nice suburban subdivision, an this is just what the Millerites are doing. The old B. & O. depot, where the milk train stopped for a goodly part 'of a half century, is no more and instead a fine looking station now lends cheer to the vista. Electric lights will soon light up the night and it's many months since the shriek of the interurban gave way to the nocturnal songs of the frog. A new school house, a new hose cart, a new city hall and a municipal lighting plant are some of the things that Miller is getting this year. While Gary has been copied for improvements the citizens have been shrewd enough not to emulate the steel city's governmental processes, and it appears that a desire for Improvements, backed up by good government, is bringing results.

THE BOXING GAME. Lake county boxing fans who are interested in the game for the sake vt the sport Itself, point to the way the question is being solved in Logansport to the satisfaction of the fans, and without arousing the enmity of the reform element. The prominent feature about Logansport successes seems to be the desire of the management ot bouts to make good all around and to give the supporting fans their money's worth, to make the show a clean entertainment, clean enough to warrant the management to invite the women to the boxing exhibitions, to put on the entertainment with dispatch, and to make the box office recipts a secondary consideration. The boxing game is being conducted all over Indiana. "Why should Lake county be barred," ask the sports

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THINGS & FUNGS MR. Kern will no doubt get away with it all right. THE Seaman franchise needs a new suit of clothes and a pair of top boots k UNCLE Sam wonders what becomes of all the pennies. So do we also the dollars. THE ice man should remember the weather man in his prayers after last week. AND grand juries will continue to be admonished to let no guilty men escape. THE wild 'and wooly west may be that way but the New York banks are still worse. "V SUPREME court evidently thinks it is impossible to malign or libel Colonel Roosevelt e NO man can be a hero to his wife when he isn't as handy at housework as his neighbor is. - -g THERE ought to be other things in London to do battle with besides anarchists and suffragettes. SEEMS as if the water wagon ought to get along a little better when we have such good roads. SO far no bill has been Introduced in the legislature asking for the suppression of Mayor Shank. e - MAN wanted his 50 cents back for sleeping in a Whiting hotel. Man wants but little here below. ABOUT the only steadfastness that some men have is to smoke the same brand of cigars all their lives. ' WINS TED calf wears its pelt on the inside. Must look like a volume of "The First Battle" bound in calf, COURT fight is not one to lose any sleep over at that. The lawyers never lose any sleep over any one else's fight - THE most dangerous of all the lit tle things that are roaming at large these days, is the nasty little grip germ. BRETHREN, please let Mr. Kern alone, he doesn't have to name the mysterious eight, not at least until after Thursday. DR. Cook admits that he once sold apples. That's no excuse. Did you ever know an old apple woman "that wasn't honest WHY do the democratic papers per sist in leaving out W. J.. B. when they mention the presidential candidates on their sides? t MEDICINE Hat people want the name of the town changed. Suggest that it be called Hades or some other such appropriate name. SCULPTOR says the present age has produced nothing in the way of art. What's the matter with the superior court house at Hammond? UNDERSTAND from the dramatic critic that Margaret Angelin is appearing in the east in "Groen Stock ings." Sounds queer, butit is true. THEY are getting seals off the Atlantic coast these days. It seems to to be easier to go out and get a mess of sealskin sacques than it is to get a brace of ducks. SEE by the papers that a hen died after laying three eggs in five hours. Evidently killed her to think that, try as she might, it was impossible to compete with the cold storage hen. THE St. Louis Globe-Democrat vouches for the story that Kansas land Is still so fertile that dwellers in sod houses have to mow the floor every little while in order to be able to find the baby. - GOVERNOR Marshall says he is much touched over the death of two babies from infantile paralysis. Ye: governor, but there are even greater evils which ought to touch you more right here in Indiana. PLAINTIVELY does Abe Martin ask: "What has become of the old time dentist that used to fill vour mouth full of rubber and then ask ebout your folks?" - He's given way, Abe, to the dentist who fills your mouth full of threshers, stumping pulling machines, pile drivers and boilerworks, while he tells you what the bill is going to be.

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Crumpacker's Suggestions The superior quality of Judge Crumpacker, compared with the ordinary run ot legislators, U admirably brought out in his statesmanlike report upon the re-apportionment bill. In this critical and careful study of conditions in the lower house of congress, he appears at hla nest as the conscientious and highminded lawmaker, removed at once from the ulterior motives of machine politics and the popular hysteria of th hour. Judge Crumpacker reminds us that It is possible to carry demands for a small membership to an extreme. The house Is, by origin, nature and uses, a representative body; It must be large enough to afford all sections and elements In our national life their due voice and legislative power. The membership may be so large as to be cumbersome, but It may also be so small as to be easily manipulated by an oligarch. in a medium course, therefore, there Is wisdom. Two suggestions of Judge CrumlOUIOJd Xt38Al oq pnO S.JSJJO'Bd If adopted, of the public welfare. One of these is the familiar one of taking the power to name committees from the speaker and giving it to the house. This is not out of keeping with the plan of John Sharp Williams to make the speakership a mere parliamentary office like that of the house of commons. His other plan Is to put the house employes under civil service rules anld ea that must commend Itself to all who value efficiency In the public service beyond the demoraU izing traffic In spoils. It is gratifying to reflect that in the upheaval of th house, this able, honest and experienced legislator has been untouched by the democratic tidal wave. It is the hope of The Star, as of all good ; citizens, that Judge Crumpacker may long be spared to give the nation the benefit of his high character and great abilities. Indianapolis Star. ' Heart to Heart Talks. By EDWIN A. NYE. MANANA. When you urge the Mexican to make a business decision and close up the deal he squirms, shows his teeth and says: . .. ,; . "Ma nana." Which means tomorrow. The habit of mind which makes the Mexican say that has made him a poor man, generally speaking, in the midst or the most profusely productive coun try in the world. And there are others. Many of us lose out In life because we put off until tomorrow what we should do today. We say: Tomorrow I will decide. Tomorrow I will begin. Tomorrow I will reform. Tomorrow I will be happy. When tomorrow comes we do not de cide, we do not begin, we do not re form, we are not happy. Because The habit persists. It is fatal to initiative, to resolute action. It becomes easy to say to onesself: Tomorrow I will start the business; tomorrow I will speak the kind word; tomorrow I will cut out the bad habit. We go on thus. We "Resolve and re-resolve, then die the same." Begin now! When thinking Is required, think; when action is required, act; when change is required, reform. Strike! The iron is red. Whether it be plowing a field or selling merchandise or launching a boat or courting a girlDo it now! -j You may make a mistake. But also you may make a mistake tomorrow. If you make the mistake today there is tomorrow to begin over. Plunge in! Do not stand shivering on the brink and fear to launch away. The water may be cold, but it will be no warmer tomorrow. Plunge in and have it over. "Come on in; the water Is fine." I do not need to tell you how many mistakes you have made, how many, ehaDces yon have missed, by putting tUngs off. You know. Let the Mexican say "Manana.'t You will fare much better to say "Today!" THE DAY IN CONGRESS SEXATE. Borah announced that on Thursday he would ask unanimous consent to tak up a resolution providing for direct election of senators for final vote on Jan. 31. Ifeyburn entered vieorous protest. Pureell of North Dakota introduced resolution urging that Secretary Ballinger is unfit to hold office because of the findings of the democratic members of the Investigating committee have shown him to be untrue to his official trust and lacking in fidelity to the public Interest. Under the rules consideration of the resolution went over until today. Two messages from the president read; one transmitting the proceedings of the Pan-American congress at Buen os Ayres and the other . transmitting

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Now in Chicago the annual report of the Panama railroad. HOI SE. Consideration of the army appropria tion bill resumed. Bill passed authorizing secretary of war to drop from rolls the name of any officer convicted ot a crime or absent without leave for a period exceeding three months. This bill applies particularly to the case of Captain Peter C. Hains, now serving a term at Sing Sing for the killing of William E. An nis. Messages received from the president conveying the annual report of the Panatna railroad and the report of the proceedings of the Pan-American con gress at Buenos Ayres. "THIS DATE IX HISTORY" January 17. 1706 Benjamin Franklin, celebrated statesman and scientist, born in Boston. Died In Philadelphia, April 17, 1790. 1810 Masked balls prohibited in Philadelphia. 1816 Henry Tnman, noted artist, died in New York City. Born In Utica, N. Y. in 1S01. 1854 Completion of the Great Western Railroad of Canada. 1862 John Tyler, tenth President of the IT. S.,- died. Born March 29, 1790. 1893 Francois Felix Faure be6ame Prtisident of France. 1901 Celebration of the bl-centenary of the Kingdom of Prussia. 1910 House of Reiesentatives passed the Separate Statehood bill for , Arizona and New Mexico. "THIS IS MY SIST BIRTHDAY Joneph Albert Feaae. Joseph Albert Pease, who a year ago was appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and given a seat In the British cabinet, was born Jan. 17, 1860, the second son of the late Sir Joseph W. Pease, first baronet. He was first elected to Parliament in 1892, and the following year he became private sec retary to the Right Hon. John Morley. He was one of the Junior whips to th Opposition from 1897 to 1905, and a junior Lord of the Treasury from 1905 to 1908, when he became Parliamentary Secretary of the Treasury. He filled the latter position until the dissolution of Parliament in 1909, and In the election that followed he was one of the leading figures on the Liberal side. UP AND DOWN IN I-N-D-I-A-N-A TYPO HEADS MEET. Thirty-two delegates,' representing sixteen local unions, were present yesterday afternoon at the Indiana state conference of typographical unions. held at the F. O. E. Hall. 216 North Meridan street. The election of officers resulted as follows: President Sidney H. Saltzgaber, La fayette. Vice President R. C. Hettel, Muncie. . Secretary-Treasurer George E. Haines, Indianapolis. DEMOCRATS OX JOKET. A happy crowd of Democrats, Taggart, anti-Taggart, and other kinds, numbering thirty-five in all, started on a junke,t to Washington, D. C, to boost the candidacy of gtokes Jackson, state chairman, for sergeant-at-arms of the national House of Reresentatives. PROTEST AGAINST HILU A vigorous protest against the socalled Crabill road commission bill, now before the Legislature, and against any change in the present road law, was registered by the frraers of Allen County yesterday afternoon at a big meeting in the assembly room of the Court House. BIG WIM, CASE OX. The contested will case of O. W. Leeds of Michigan City against his sister, Caroline A. Leeds Cushman of Chicago, involving the estate of the late Mrs. Amelia Q. Leeds will be called this week in the Lap'orte Circuit Court. The estate is valued at $mo,ooo and the trial romises to develop features of unusual interest. ' 1 LOOK FOR NATl'RAL GAS, W. J. Rogers of Evansville is at the head of a company recently formed for the purpose of testing a large body of land in an effort to find a supply of natural gas for the city of Evansville. The company has leased thousands of acres between' the towns of Elberfeld, i

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The Evening Chit-Chat By RUTH CAMERON

Mine hostess came back from a fiveminute conversation at the telephone, pouting charmingly. ucn a bore to have to stay so long at mat old telephone when I didn't want to lose a moment of you," she assured me. Mosh flattering, surely, but Well, I shall never telephone that lady again -without wondering what comment follows the end of our talk. Would you? How people dare say things like that when they must know how they will be transalated by people of discernment I just can't see. Who but a fool, after hearing a woman criticise everything about the member of tho group who has just left would not realize that the moment she herself got out of earshot the same fine-tooth criticism would be applied to her? There was a girl at college who was tremendously clever at making fun of.

poupie. tne was so Irresistibly witty excitement of a confidential or affecthat when she got started on one of ! tionate or friendly moment, will say to her teara we all laughed, even when we ' you about another person it's dollars were ashamed of laughing. She was an j to doughnuts that under similar coninteresting girl, a brilliant girl, a jolly j dltions he will gay to someone else

in many ways, but she didn't have many mends. Why? Why, because even when we laughed and applauded we trembled for our own skins. We knew enough to be i rata ot-ner. Every one knows the type of girl who tells you, with a delightfully con-

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TRITZI Fritxi Scheff will star in Victor completed. twelve miles south of Oakland City, and Haubstadt. The tract is along the line between Gibson and Vanderburg Coun-j ties, most of It lying in Gibson.

BREAKS CHEEK BONE. j Although the Wabash River during D. Ray Price, a student at Earlham'the last forty-eight hours has risen College, at Richmond was thrown while nearly five feet it yet lacks, several wrestling with a fellow student at the feet of the danger point. The gauge college and his right cheek bone broken. registered 10 feet 4 inches at 8 o'clock Wrestling as recently added to the ath- last n'Sht and was rising at the rata letic program at Earlham and until or one lnch an hour; It is believed the time of Xhe accident was roving there is little danger of serious dam-

very popular. ROVMAXIAXS ARM. To avenge the death of their fellow countryman, Nick Mlra, of Fort Wayne who was shot and instantly killed yesterday afternoon by an Italian, the

Roumanians in the rolling mill district The Hamilton Bottle and Glass Cornlast evening bought up the available pany. Arcadia; capital stock, $70,000:

local. supply of automatic pistols. Th murderer has not been apprehended. ; COMMAXDER IS ACTIVE. j The commander of the Indiana divfsion of the Sons of Veterans, Joseph ' Sego of Valparaiso, has inaugurated a campaign of education and organizatlon. He says that the proper education of the people In their duty of-patriotic devotion to their county will best pave' the way for patriotic organizations. ITAMAXS GREET DIVAS. I A shouting, gesticulating horde of people, mostly Italians, surrounded Charles Goetz and ten 'Oriental Divas'' ' at the Vandalia Railway Station in Logansport yesterday afternoon. Goetz is the manager of the "Oriental Divas" and the divas are the stars and chorus of a company that has occupied the Crystal Theater here for several weeks. EDITOR'S FIXERAL HELD. Funeral services were held In Evans ville yesterday for Clarence W. Ben nett, formerly of the Indianapolis Journal and The Louisville CourierJournal, who died at "Woodmere. Until 1902 he edited the Boonvllle Standard. A widow survives. He was a graduate of De Pauw University and graduated in the class with Senator A. J. BeverIdge. Ml'RDER TRIAL, BEGINS. The trial of Sylvester Hodges, the young man of Portland who Is charged with murder in connection with the death of 12-year-old Charles E. Shultz.

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j fldential air. "She told me not to tell any one this, but I simply must tell j you about it, because I know you will ' appreciate it," A few a very few of us have the strength not to listen to her violated confidences, but the majority of us listen, laugh, or are interested, thank her, and straightway set her down as some one whose pledged word we must remember to have no confidence in. To me the worst type of these folks who so cheerfully make the noose wherewith to murder people's trust In them is the man who talks about other women he has known to the one woman with whom he happens to be In love at the moment. He doubtless thinks to make himself solid with the new love by betraying the old, but if tha new love is any kind of a woman at all he damns himself utterly as a person to be trusted. It is a poor rule that doesn't work both ways, and what any one. in the ! about you Of course, there are a few tions to this as to all rules. excepBut on the whole I think It's a pretty safe rule to go by, and that any one of sense, whatever his outward demeanor toward such people, always mentally hangs a -Beware of the dog" sign upon them. 3CHEFF Herbert's new opera" Rossita" Just j will be commenced in the Circuit Court in Newcastle today with Judge Jackson on the bench. WABASH OX RAMPAGE. age. Articles of Incorporation. The following articles of iscomoratlon have been filed in the office of the secretary of statedirectors, John Holland, Henry O'Meara E. N. Messick, John Stohan. F. C. Christlas; object, to manufacture bottles, jars and other glass products. Lederer-Feibleman Company, Terre Haute; capital stock, $34,000; directors. Julius Lederer, E. 11. Wilson and Eugene Feibleman; object, to engage in mercantile business. Hazieton Tile asd Concrete Company, Hazieton; capital stock, $10,000: dfrectors, E. E. Curtner, C. E. Elliott and N. D. Curtner: object to deal in titl and concrete. r American Central Law School, Indianapolis; no capital stock; incorporators, T. J. Moil, M. W. Mangus, F. R. Bonlfleld, Carl H. Weyl. Elmer W. Stout, W. W. Thornton, M. H. Miller, C. R. Cameron. The Electric Light and Power Company of Lebanon, filed a report of an increase of capital stock by the issuing of $30,000 of preferred stock. McReynolds-Scott Hardware; Kokomo; capital stock, $15,000; directors, J. R. McReynolds, C. O. Scott and C. W. McReynolds; hardware, vehicle and implement business. Wabash Pearl Button Company, Delphi; capital stock, $20,000; directors. Lewis Hall, Alfred H. Brewer and William Donlln; manufacture and sale of buttons of all kinds. Monon Detective Association, No. S, Monon; no capital stock; trustees. W. J. Hinkle, Henry Barnhart and E. J. Clark.